Gaming headset and charging method

a gaming headset and charging method technology, applied in the field of computer gaming, can solve the problems of headset microphone and speaker not being available to the user during charging, game could go down, undesirable to use a usb charger on a gaming headset during use,

Active Publication Date: 2009-10-08
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC
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If the gaming headset battery goes down, the game could go down.
However, for safety reasons it is undesirable to use a USB charger on a gaming headset during use.
However, placing the headset in a charging cradle generally makes the headset microphone and speakers unavailable to the user during charging.

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[0009]Although the following detailed description contains many specific details for the purposes of illustration, anyone of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that many variations and alterations to the following details are within the scope of the invention. Accordingly, examples of embodiments of the invention described below are set forth without any loss of generality to, and without imposing limitations upon, the claimed invention.

[0010]A according to an embodiment of the present invention an audio headset 100 may be configured as shown in FIG. 1. The headset 100 is interoperable with a charging cradle 111 and a console device 130, which may include its own processor 132, memory 134 and software 136. By way of example, the console device may be a video game device (e.g., a PlayStation 3 from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. of Tokyo, Japan) coupled to an audio-video monitor 140, such as a television set. The headset 100 may include a case 101. A processor 102 may be mou...

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An audio headset may comprise a case, near field microphone and far field microphone. A speaker, processor, memory, battery, charging interface and cradle detection circuit may be mounted to the case. Processor-executable instructions embodied in the memory, may be configured to implement a battery charging method. The headset may be shut off in response to placement of the headset in a charging cradle. The far-field microphone is turned on but not the near-field microphone. The battery may then be charged from the cradle. A headset having near-field and far-field microphones may be used to distinguish between user speech and competing sounds by generating signals from the sounds detected by each microphone and comparing the strengths of the signals. The signals may be processed as user speech if they are of comparable strength. Otherwise, the near-field signal may be processed as user speech and the far-field signal as competing sounds.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]Embodiments of this invention are related to computer gaming and more specifically to audio headsets used in computer gaming.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Many video game systems make use of a headset for audio communication between a person playing the game and others who can communicate with the player's gaming console over a computer network. Many such headsets can communicate wirelessly with a gaming console. Such headsets often contain a microphone and speakers that are power by a battery and wireless transceivers. If the gaming headset battery goes down, the game could go down. To permit charging of the battery during play many headsets make use of a charging mechanism such as a charging cradle or Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. However, for safety reasons it is undesirable to use a USB charger on a gaming headset during use. Charging the headset battery with the charging cradle is generally safer since it keeps the headset away from the user's ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04R1/10
CPCH04R1/1025H04R1/1041H04R3/005H04R2420/07H04R2205/021H04R2420/03H04R2201/107
Inventor MAO, XIADONGCHEN, RUXINLUISI, SETH C.H.
Owner SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC
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